תְּלוּנָה tᵉlûwnâh — a grumbling
Translated in the KJV as murmuring.
or תּלֻנָּה; from H3885 in the sense of obstinacy; a grumbling.
tᵉlûwnâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
מַלִּינִ֖ם Exod 16:8 Participle (active), masculine plural
And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›